John and Susan Townley's AstroCocktail

Astrologers have their hackles up about the skies this month and into the new year, as well they might. We’re into an amazing celestial tour-de-force with a weakened, retro Mars drifting off opposite a suddenly-changing general skyscape, which includes both Jupiter and Pluto stepping into Capricorn after tripping over the Galactic Center (not quite 27 Sagittarius), along with the lunar nodes changing from their Pisces-Virgo to Aquarius-Leo just a couple of months after Saturn made its switch along that same Leo-Virgo border. Altogether, it’s a real sea change, or maybe more like the change where a roaring river or estuary cascades into an advancing sea tide (think Columbia River in the U.S.A., or the Severn in the U.K.), replete with rapids, undertow, tidal bores, whirlpools, and riptides. Too many planets making too many changes in too small a timeframe. The door into winter this year is crowded, indeed.

What does it all mean? Whenever you narrow the pipe and raise the volume going through it, Boyle’s Law (cooked up way back in 1662 by Robert Boyle and his buddy Richard Towneley) will tell you the pressure increases proportionately, and simply going to a sale at Macy’s or the mall will tell you it’s a shoving match getting through the door. Expect to get caught off balance a lot, as events elbow their way through without thought for the consequences. The most intense days will be from December 18-22 when Jupiter, the nodes, Mercury, and Sun change signs. Another particularly narrow passageway will be the weekend of December 29-30 when Mars backs into Gemini on an exact T-square with Pluto and the Moon, leading into a single bottlenecked trading day Monday, with the markets shut down the next day for New Year. The betting table will be full on this New Year’s Eve, be sure…

Although this may be a jouncing ride leading into a year of real action instead of last year’s frothing but penultimate imprecations (Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn now mean business, not talk), it could still be more intense. As all these planets tumble over the Galactic Center and through the door into winter, it will still take them a few days to accomplish it. In another two hundred years, thanks to precession, the GC and zero Capricorn will be at exactly the same place. That will be a jammed doorframe, indeed…until then, happy holidays to all!

If October was an invasion by Mars speeding into Cancer, this November marks that planet’s high-water mark and the beginning of a long winter retreat. At mid-month the planet of action halts its advance at the middle of Cancer to begin a withdrawal all the way back to where it was in mid-September. So, get your last licks in during the first two weeks of November while making ready to re-tread some of the ground you gained at summer’s end. That doesn’t mean wholesale abandonment of your position, just an editing of your energies and direction, just as you would edit your ideas during a Mercury retro period. This one lasts until the beginning of February, so dig in and take your time. It will be frustrating for those expecting rapid advances, but sustaining if you choose to consolidate your gains. By April, the pause will be over and Mars will be back into new territory.

In the meantime, it’s isolated in the sky, opposite the rest of the planets except for a monthly visit from the Moon. In fact, the two-year cycle of Mars retro always comes when it’s roughly opposite the Sun, by definition, but this time everything else is generally opposite as well. Now is the time for lessons learned about the bridge too far. Rash actions taken as Mars is about to go retro usually end up in overextension and delay, such as Hitler’s invasion of Russia only two months before Mars went retro in the summer of 1941, the Allied invasion of Italy which hit a dead stop at Monte Cassino (summer of 1943), and but for the atom bomb, the same would have again applied to an invasion of Japan in the summer of 1945.

That big red thing rising around midnight and culminating just before dawn is Mars – it’s nearing its closest approach to Earth and a great view in a backyard telescope, but there’s more to it than that. It’s also the handle of a celestial bucket chart that emphasizes its influence and is barreling along through Cancer like there’s no tomorrow. Except that there is, and it’s going to come to a screeching halt in mid-November, ushering in a long and frustrating retro period that lasts well into the winter.

But for now, it commands the skies and what’s happening beneath them, so the urge is to go-go-go even when you’re going a bridge too far. That’s what happened the last time (two years ago) when big pushes in Iraq made it look like we were going somewhere, but then it all bogged down and the “swamp” image surfaced for the first time since Vietnam. Expect it to happen again, as the current “surge” fades away. But the same logic applies to the rest of our lives, so don’t count your chickens this month based on the burgeoning possibilities that seem to be at hand. The trick is to take action but don’t overstretch your supply lines or take on more than you can handle.

Also hanging in the sky is a Jupiter-Uranus square which makes for lots of sparks and new possibilities, but watch out for diminishing returns when you get down to the nitty-gritty. Squares tend to waste time that way. Mercury goes retro on the October 11, so make the usual accommodations and spend the rest of the month editing and fine-tuning your operations (or, in the case of new ones, expect change down the line). The watchword for the month is change, with Saturn just into a new sign, and Jupiter and Pluto headed for a joint shift framing the New Year. Nothing is settled quite yet, no definite direction yet determined, so hang on to your hat but keep your feet on the ground.

Our fire-and-air graphic for August painted a sadly true picture from burning Western forests to all of Greece aflame except for unexpected flooding (only Uranus was in water). This month also remains largely waterless but an abiding earth presence returns as Saturn moves into Virgo, much to the relief of weary Leos.

Although Saturn changing signs is the big news of the month, it’s still silly season until past the solar eclipse of September 11th in the belly of Virgo, part of a fractious T-square with Mars and Pluto, so expect some conflict and shifting positions until that’s over. That Mars-Pluto opposition, intensified by Pluto going direct on the 7th, makes daily T-squares with the Angles and blows up into an out-of-element grand cross at the full Moon of the 26th, so expect a little madness (of both crazy and angry kinds) around that time as well.

If Mars moving at breakneck speed through Gemini makes for problems it can also be part of the solution through its grand air trine with Mercury and Neptune midmonth, perhaps providing a peaceable outlet for crazy Martian energies. Turning idealistic possibilities into active realities can turn that T-cross energy into something creative and vital.

Still, the forecast remains dry, again with only Uranus in water (more storms) and only the Moon occasionally in water signs until the end of the month when Mars joins Mercury in adding some much-needed moisture and feelings into the mix.

Summer may have been late in coming for some, with July skies still replete with both earth and water, but as August moves in it all dries up, so anything you need done with your feet on the ground or some semblance of sensitivity should be taken care of by the end of the first week. Within the four days Aug. 4-8, Mercury moves out of watery Cancer into Leo and Mars flees earthy Taurus for some Gemini air, gracelessly squaring Venus backing out of Virgo into Leo, leaving the sky earthless and – except for Uranus – waterless. Hot and thirsty, pedal-to-the-metal summer has arrived. Only the Moon provides the occasional respite, with retro Venus herself in a last uncertain embrace with Saturn as he finally makes his move to Virgo.

Meanwhile, all the planets conspire to flee Mars, who dominantly becomes the bucket handle of action, swinging the rest of the sky for the rest of summer and all the way through the fall, where he turns retro and bogs down after going a bridge too far. Impetuosity rules, then reaps its usual rewards after tripping over two eclipses, one kicking near Saturn at his last lordly Leo degree with Regulus, and the other right opposite explosive Uranus, as August passes into September. Labor Day/Bank Holiday weekend falls right at the heart of the action. Lots of surprises, especially for those who forgot to check their brakes, which could be most of us.

As Saturn moves out of opposition to Neptune this month, it will spend the time hanging around Venus instead, a conjunction which will be in every July birthday’s solar return, meaning a coming year of learning to love the old guy instead of distrusting him. Further, Mars in the sign of Taurus the bull gives everybody a surer foot on the ground, a relief after a June of fire and air and hardly any earth at all. It will be a secure feeling to enjoy some warm Cancer water and solid Taurus earth to sink your heart and feet into. Earth and water – it’s what your body’s made of, so it’s the perfect time to get in touch with your inner primordial ooze, slap on a mud pack, or just go to the beach, where our ancestors crawled out of the sea!

However you choose to go about it, enjoy and take advantage while you can, because August will roll back to a hot and dry, totally fire and air picture, with both earth and water scarce, indeed. Very high-speed – great for action but not for traction. And that’s just the beginning of a forming Mars bucket that will soon begin to dominate the sky all the way into the winter, as it surges through three signs and then hangs retrograde in Cancer and Gemini. So, all endeavors to make forward progress and then dig in to a firm position this month will be worth the effort down the road. Once Mars begins to ring the changes in August, it will be hard to keep up with it all if you don’t have a prearranged platform to refer back to. The dizziest days will whirl around Labor Day weekend, framed by two eclipses thrown into the mix.

So be bullish about July, embrace the pull of gravity tying you to your planet, paw the ground and mark your territory, as who knows what stampedes will be on when late August's dog days begin to bark...

June’s big news is that Saturn and Neptune will be having their last opposition of this generation. This is the “third pass” – it’s happened twice already, and these slow aspects happen in threes, with one retro pass, two direct. With two such totally inimical planets tangling in hard aspect, they tend to bring out the worst in each other – in this case a sea of lies and self-delusion from the establishment countered with self-absorption and apathy from the public, general paralysis. On an individual basis, that tends toward treachery where you expect reliability and disillusionment with dreams that have lost their promise. It's hard to know what direction to follow. A lot has been written on the history of it, but here’s one you may have missed. Fortunately, Saturn starts to pick up speed and hightail it out of Leo and on to a last set of mischief in Virgo until it finally opposes Uranus in 2009, gets inside the outer planets and stops bucking progress. Lots more damage to be done before that happens.

This month, however, lets you in on the good side of Saturn as the first week is aglow with a grand fire trine with Mars and Jupiter, which then moves on in the second week to another with Mars and Pluto. Both are great for getting fired up over achievements, but don’t forget that Neptune still lurks in the heart of it, so look for the canker worm before you swallow it whole. Venus moves into a long spin in Leo, when she will be doing her own retro dance with Saturn, providing a lot of summer solar returns with belt-tightening but highly intense Venus-Saturn conjunctions, twice in Leo, and then again in Virgo. Another celestial set of three.

Illusions...

Something's going to happen but they don't know what it is...

The heads-up message for this merry month of May may be heads-off! That’s because in the midst of this spring season of grand fire trines mixed with T-crosses, spinning off the remaining trine of Jupiter and Saturn and the opposition of Saturn and Neptune, the new Moon of May 16 (25° 33’ Taurus) falls within under a degree of the direst of fixed stars, Caput Algol (the Gorgon’s Head), an eclipsing double star in the process of celestial suicide, long-associated with beheadings and hangings, or losing your head in general. The lunation happens directly square to Saturn and Neptune in their final opposition dance of the decade, an ill match which has highlighted destructive delusion, especially in high places (Saturn, Leo) and mass culture (Neptune, Aquarius). A long season of wishful lethargy encouraged by deliberate illusions is coming to an end, and you can expect heads to roll as a result, hopefully clearing the air for saner behavior in the aftermath.

The trick, of course, is to make sure the head that rolls isn’t yours. In a time with lots of promising trines that should be easy, except that they are always tied to that Saturn-Neptune dance, just like the T-squares. All month, the Jupiter-Saturn trine turns into a grand trine with the Ascendant (well before dawn) or Midheaven and (mid-morning), so those are the times to move, keeping in mind the tagged-on opposition. Even more than April, now it’s the early bird that gets the worm. Later in the day, the opposition becomes a difficult T-square with Ascendant or MC around early afternoon and then early evening, so lunch and dinner are probably not the best times for doing business. And if your birthday falls mid-May, blow those candles out with especial care. And beware the Queen of Hearts, warns Alice…

It’s going to be an interesting month, so hang on to your hat, and what’s inside it…

As we pointed out last month, this spring is for the early bird, with grand fire trines forming midday to early morning all month. There are a few showers among the sunshine, however, as that nasty Saturn-Neptune opposition gets turned into a T-cross or even a grand cross during the late evenings. The most contradictory weather is on April 5, when a grand fixed cross (Saturn-Neptune against Moon-Venus) combines with Jupiter going retro in a grand fire trine with Sun and Saturn. It’s like the good news and the bad news are tightly linked together by Saturn, so watch the world pivot and be ready to come out standing right side up.

April 19 has a similar rollover play with a Moon-generated T-square rolling into a Mercury grand trine. When you involve the Ascendant and MC, the good aspects max early, the bad ones late. So, it would seem like a month to be up bright to greet the Sun and get your business done in daylight – then turn in and sleep through the worst of it. Astrology is truly a daily strategy, after all…you can set your alarm by it…

One final phenomenon this month is the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which happens once every two years. It’s on April 29, at 17 Pisces, and if that’s your Ascendant, take an extra precaution or two that week. For reinforcement, read about someone who didn’t…but it’s more well-known for its mundane forecasting element, predicting the next area of world conflict…

That's who will cash in on this year's bountiful spring skies...

As we all slip and slide through this dicey March Mercury retro/eclipse period, the good news is a coming season of warm and inspiring grand fire trines, thanks to a hovering Jupiter-Saturn trine engaged for several days at a time by the Sun, Moon, and inner planets. It’s a welcome runner-up to last year’s Trines of Spring that brought an especially-blest crop of babies, from princeling Barron Trump to the little Brangelina. The coming hot dates are, in order: Venus (March 5-11), Sun (April 3-12), Mercury (April 19-24), Mars (June 4-10), and Moon (3/20, 4/16, 5/13, 6/10). And, with Saturn opposing Neptune in all, turning that fiery triangle into a virtual Cupid’s bow (or kite) pattern, the heart will be both predator and prey, so proceed with caution as the pulse races and the imagination runs deceitfully wild.

But know, now: each and every day it’s the early bird that gets the worm, because regardless of where the other planets are, you get a grand fire trine twice a day, as the Ascendant and Midheaven come into mutual aspect with Jupiter and Saturn, never later than just after lunch, generally much earlier. The exact time steps back four minutes each day, and here’s the framework for just when the big windows of opportunity flash open, local time, everywhere in temperate latitudes like New York, Paris, San Francisco:

The Ascendant (best for making smashing personal appearances, or just launching your day) makes the grand fire trine/Cupid's bow at only 8 AM on March 1, retreats to 6 AM by April 1, until it’s into the wee hours at 4 AM on May 1. Set your alarm for then. The Midheaven (best for career and fame efforts) makes the aspect at 2:30 PM on March 1, regresses to lunch hour 12:30 PM by April 1, and backs well into mid-morning at 10:30 AM by May 1. That’s when to clinch the deal. To find the exact time of the aspect on any particular day, just subtract four minutes for every day past the first of that month.

And of course, during the periods when the Sun, Moon, or other planets are also involved, those moments pack a double dose of intensity. Mark them on your calendar now, so you’re ready to ride when they arrive…just watch out for that Saturn-Neptune sting in the center – to make sure you’re the bird and not the worm…

Good news, after we get through the crazy news, that is...

First, the good news. The hovering scythe in the sky, at its most intense at the New Moons of January 18 and February 17, has seen its worst, and by the first week of March Jupiter will have rushed forward to make a nice trine to the winter’s lonely and hostile Saturn and some forward motion may finally be in the wind, particularly during those moments when the angles or the Moon step in to make it a grand fire trine. But, it’s been an interesting two months, from lust in space to death in the casino, with the flames of war licking at ever-new and expanding tinder around the world, and shifting alliances making the old ones look ever less secure.

Now, the crazy news. The way out of all this is not a firm simple step, but through three weeks of Mercury retrograde February 13 through March 7, which makes life’s road rather icy and slippery, when over-steering and under-gauging is rife. And, overlapping that, it’s eclipse season again, with a lunar eclipse March 3 at 13° Virgo-Pisces and a solar eclipse March 18 at 28° Pisces. Wherever you’ve got Virgo or Pisces, expect a sudden shift in matters concerning the planet or house you’ve got there, so brace yourself. It doesn’t have to be a problem, but it does require you be ready to rearrange and rebalance at a moment’s notice, relying on yourself alone, particularly in this Saturn-Neptune opposition/scythe climate where delays are everywhere and untruth is rampant.

Finally, speaking of Virgo and Pisces, that’s of course where the lunar nodes are right now, so where those fall in your chart, expect “karmic” revisitations of old family ties, whether it be from blood relatives or just your larger life threads that resurface to remind you of who’s in your bigger, cosmic family…

After the last Mars-Uranus conjunction, this was all that was left...

A few years ago, in the pages of the Llewellyn Journal, we advised travelers to avoid Indonesia for the season and “just buy a nice gamelan music CD” instead. Shortly after, the greatest tsunami on record hit the area.

More recently, in our editorial page here at AstroCocktail, we subsequently suggested the next coming disaster would be a hurricane in the U.S., and that very next season, Katrina struck.

How did we manage it? It’s all about the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which happens once every two years, and where it falls on the map. Where it occurs right overhead, at the Midheaven or in the tenth house, that’s the north-south band of the world that will experience the most noteworthy disasters, violence, wars, and other Mars-Uranus type outbreaks. It gives fair warning – and has been on the mark for the beginnings of World War I and World War II, Hiroshima, the record Hawaiian tsunami of 1946, as well as Indonesia and New Orleans. The next one happens April 29, so it’s time to take a look and find out the places to avoid for a while until the worst is over. To find out details, see our new February feature, and adjust your travel plans accordingly (clue: this one’s only too obvious), at:

Snapshots In The Sky: Mars-Uranus, Redux!

The results don’t necessarily happen right away this spring, but usually down the line, from a few months hence right up until the next conjunction, and the later they come, the more intense they tend to be. Actually, the opening days of spring will be something of a relief, a relative respite from the January-February double-pulse of the celestial scythe we’re in, and as Jupiter and Saturn come into trine in March and April, ancillary grand fire trines formed with Moon, Mercury, Sun, and Venus all open up lots of possibilities for everyone. It’s going to be a bit of a reprise of last year’s wonderful trines of spring, so as February clears out, get ready to make hay while the skies shine…

Hot off the presses, astrology is making world news, more every day...

Every day, here at AstroCocktail, we cover the daily news in both the headlines and in the skyline – sometimes they’re both on the same page and sometimes not. You can consult our daily crawl at another site, a thumbnail of what’s happening for the day, while on this page we try to focus on the long-range picture in combination with notable daily events that focus on astrology.

But wherever you look, however you look, astrology is ever more in the news. That ranges from the likes of star-mad India, where marriages are matched by the planets in public and private and there’s a personal astrologer at the touch of a cellphone, to the more skeptical sides of the West where market forecasters and insurance companies regularly undercut the doubting conventional wisdom. Perhaps that’s because the current scythe is making events seem so out of control that people look to something else for an explanation, or maybe we’re all just getting a better grip on the larger context in which we live. Of course, the planets really don’t care, they just go about their orbits, like powerful little Pluto, in disregard of what we say about them.

But though the stars may not be listening, we are, and we find the correlation of above and below so very compelling. Like the weather, you can’t change it but you sure can benefit from watching it. This last month and next we have been in the heart of big changes (as we have mentioned well ahead of time) and they’re not easy for a lot of people. A lingering Saturn-Neptune opposition makes the deceit and distrust of authority ever more relevant, and Jupiter’s square to Uranus brings on change in abrupt and overwhelming bursts, which may be only a bit allayed as it comes into trine with Saturn. That’s a serious conflict between changing political (Jupiter-Saturn) and social (Uranus-Neptune) evolution, not an easy ride. Despite all, it seems the increasingly up-tempo march of time may promise improvement upon what was there only recently before, so the stormy skies of change may be blowing in some good, for some signs more than others, though it may yet take a while.

In the meantime, keep an eye on our newslinks as we cover the impelling skies churning the cauldron of events below. It’s a reminder that life is not stagnant (these are interesting times, for all that implies) and worth waking up every morning to peek at today’s, and tomorrow’s, headlines…

Stormy Weather!

When there's a tempest on the horizon, it could still be good news for you...

Lately we’ve seen so many dire predictions that a lot of people have been asking us for some good news – nobody likes looming disaster. Although the coming sky looks stormy indeed, no denying that, there’s a big difference between the big picture and your own. Fortunately, the greater, whole cloth and your individual thread within it are two totally different matters.

What you need to look at is what’s happening to you, and your part in the world, not the world as a whole. Even when the odds seem against everyone in general, they can favor you specifically. That’s what astrology is so good at: separating out the different levels of destiny, so to speak, yours and others’. We can’t say here what your individual horoscope promises – only a close look at your full natal chart can do that – but we can suggest what your personal exposure might be (for sign-by-sign details, see “Under Stormy Skies,” click here). That’s because we can tell you what the general trends are and where to be careful. For the next couple of years, the contest is between established power (Saturn, whoever’s been in charge, at every level) and the rest of the world (particularly the outer planets, avatars of social and spiritual evolution). That applies from the level of nations right down to the local workplace and family. So if you know the players, you can choose to safely skirt the game or, if you think you’ve a winning hand, jump right in.

Your political, religious, or national affiliations don’t really matter. It’s not about you vs. them. It’s the past against the future -- and the future is going to win, count on it, so tend to your own. If your horoscope is a bit besieged right now, stay on the sidelines and seek safety, you’ve got enough problems. If you and yours are looking hopeful, find a new bandwagon and get on. If you’re backing the old story, you’re bound to fall, so don’t. Be a witness to the wreck, not a part of it. That’s not optional – history is chronicled by survivors, not always participants. It’s all about which side are you on, however you participate, and that crosses all boundaries. It’s not printed on your voter registration, your church membership, your passport, or your newspaper subscription. It’s written on your heart. Follow that, and with a little care the approaching tempest will rage around you and pass, an adventure you’ll relate to your grandchildren...

On Permanent Record (The Star) – Or, as permanent as palm leaves can be. Not exactly Akashic, but they supposedly tell all about everybody’s stars, in detail…

Astrologer Warns Bush (My San Antonio) – Down the column, this guy is worried about the prez and the eclipses, warns him to lay low…

Converging Cycles (Inquirer) – Gathering planetary storms are likely to do us in by, of course, 2012…can the planet be saved?…

Delivery By The Stars (Sify) – Child delivery, not UPS. Caesarians are increasingly picked by couples' astrologers in favor of natural birth, just to get the chart right…

Asteroids and Dinosaurs (AFP) – A single event in the asteroid belt unleashed the strike that destroyed the dinosaurs – it’s aftermath still threatens Earth today…

Star Songs (LJWorld) – This guy’s becoming a YouTube star, going on tour, by singing about the stars, literally…

Help For Turbulent Times (Huffington Post) – Huffington Post has an astrologer on its rolls, it would appear…

A Deal With The Gods (WTOL-11) – This Wiccan astrologer claims he made a deal with the gods, won the lottery…we wonder what the deal was…

Nearsighted (Stanford Daily) – Maybe blind as a bat. That’s what a summer birth will do to you, according to Israeli study…

Once In A Red Moon (Gulf News) – How do you tell if a lunar eclipse bodes well or ill? It’s about how the Moon’s makes her exit…and, pregnant moms need to be on the move in Fiji…

On The Cusp (Guardian) – Astrological terminology is leaking into the language more than this article suggests…

Split Personality (Forbes) – That’s what Mother Nature’s going to have this winter, according to The Farmer’s Almanac secret formula of lunar tides and planetary positions…

Edge On! (ESO) – Uranus’s rings are pointed straight at the Earth, a once in 42-year event. What does it mean?…(clue: on Uranus, it’s the spring equinox, Sun in Aries for the next seven years)…

Jupiter No Protector (New Scientist) – The big daddy of planets used to be thought to defend us from asteroid and Centaur hits. Not so, it turns out…

They Shake The Earth (Malaysia Sun) – Solar vibrations literally reach out and shake the Earth, with all sorts of effects…

Astrology Tops Football (Southern Star) – On the Web, that is. And Irish footballers are shocked!…

The Enemies Of Reason (Guardian) – They may not be astrologers, as Dawkins suggests, they may be scientists themselves, selling out…

Google Sky (Telegraph) – Put yourself in the celestial map, right on your computer screen…astrologers will love it (astronomers, too)…more here…

Red Eyes (NASA) – As Mars reaches opposition, it will conjoin warlike Aldeberan (“Watcher of the East”), like two ominous red eyes in the sky…

Burial By The Stars (Kuensel) – The astrologer picks the time, place, and those responsible for cutting up the body into pieces…

License To See (Time) – That’s what fortunetellers must have in witch-friendly Salem, MA. Regulations are easing, but not fast enough for some…

A Tainted Embrace (Agoravox) – Scientists who espouse the likes of astrology should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail…

Body Parts (Mirror) – Thin lips make for intelligence, according to one astrology website. Here’s a wrap on the rest…

Leafing Through Life (New Straits Times) – The palm leaves have your name on them, a surprisingly upcoming very old approach to astrology…

Ukraine Trained (Interfax) – Ukraine is opening an astrological trade college, approved by the Ministry of Education…

Plunge Into The Irrational (International Herald Tribune) – It’s summer, so why not? 52% of Europeans think astrology has a scientific basis, way ahead of Britain and America…

Banking On Astrology (Cambridge News) – That’s what Barclay’s Bank is doing, with surveys showing Leos and Capricorns are the most likely eager entrepreneurs…

In Your Face (Newpaper) – The ancient art of face-reading isn’t exactly astrology, unless you consider that your Ascendant is written all over your face…

Bad Moon Rising (Again) (The Star) – More on the Sussex cops beefing up for Full Moon nights…

Saturn’s Shadow Looms (The Star) – The change of Saturn’s sign is beginning to be felt all over…

Astrologer In The House? (IndyStar) – The House of Representatives, that is…Rep. Julia Carson just might have one on call…

The Enemy Of Reason (Observer-Guardian) – That’s what we all are, unless we are as rigorous as Richard Dawkins, according to Richard Dawkins…

A Dreamy Eclipse (Space Travel) – The coming August eclipse will be a colorful one, and America gets a good view this time…

Rock On (News Observer) – Astrologers Steve and Jodie Forrests’ Celtic band do “The Elves’ Prophecy.” Get back Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span, et al…

A Pair of Snakes (Daily India) – Releasing a pair of snakes can go a long way toward fixing certain astrological nodal problems such as Kaal Sarpa Yog. A bit pricey, though…

Elephant Hope (Bloomberg) – When government scientists and astrologers fail to predict the weather, there’s always Indra to turn to…sacrificing a few goats helps, too…

Demonstrable Effects (American Chronicle) – Nice piece by Kat Starwolf on the ongoing debate of scientific validity…

Celestial Workout (Syracuse.com) – Yes, it’s time for Sun-sign exercises, fitness for the whole Zodiac…oh, why not?…

Fasting For Pluto (Cape Cod Today) – Some people really care about this poor planet, sympathy for the Devil, we surmise…

Here Comes The Sun (Enter Stage Right) – It’s all about the Sun, its cycles, and so on, like a vibrating musical instrument…

Slaves Of NY (NY Post) – Man held in involuntary bondage by would-be astrologers in Queens, NY temple…

Mystic Diaspora (Inquirer) – Philippine mystics and astrologers, with their own take on Lemuria (that would be them) have a different view of these uneasy times…

Tough Times Afoot (Times of India) – Or will be, as Saturn moves into a new sign for the next couple of years. To make it better, feed some crows…

What’s It Like?… (Frederick New Post) – …to read the stars?…sweet piece, nice astrologer, condescending reporter…

For The Disabled (Times Of India) – After climbing the highest mountains, this physically challenged soul aims for the stars, to help others in the same situation…

An Auspicious Hour (Hindustan Times) – That’s when India’s first woman president, herself an admirer of astrology, will be inaugurated…astrologers all agree, predicted her win…

Unexpected Stars (Astrodynamics) – The stars of one of the more unlikely presidential candidates, Ron Paul, suggesting…well, suggesting…plus, the compassion of the president, two by Lynn Hayes at her best…

You Start With Astrology (Rising Nepal) -- …and then you continue with science and numbers, because it’s all math…some marvelous examples here…